Release: Publish Gitea 1.26.0-rc0

[lunny]

The planned release window is April 6 to April 8.

• Check crowdin sync
• Create a new branch release/v1.26
• Create a tag v1.27.0-dev in main branch
• Prepare a new changelog (there are a lot of new changes) and update CHANGELOG.md
• Release 1.26.0-rc0 from release/v1.26 branch
  • Check possible Golang versions upgraded
  • Check whether XGo is ready for new Golang version
  • Check whether golang-alpine image is ready for the new Golang version
  • Generate changelog_1.26.0-rc0.md from merged CHANGELOG.md
  • Frontend changelog to main branch
  • Tag 1.26.0-rc0 with git tag -s -f changelog_1.26.0-rc0.md v1.26.0-rc0 and Push to Github
  • Wait for the release created and check whether the release artifacts generated
    • Check whether Github release attachments are generated and normal
    • Check whether the binaries generated under https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/1.26.0-rc0/ and normal
    • Check whether docker images are generated https://hub.docker.com/r/gitea/gitea/tags?page=&page_size=&ordering=&name=1.26.0-rc0
  • If the release does work then make it out of draft so that it's public for everyone.
• Official packages updated
  • Homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/g/gitea.rb
  • Snap https://snapcraft.io/gitea
  • Helm Chart For Gitea
  • Terraform
• Update documentation to add version to 1.26.0-rc0
• Confirm blog is ready and merge
• Announce the 1.26.0-rc0 release.

[wxiaoguang]

Can list the pending PRs that need to have high priority for 1.26, if they are:

• quick fix which will not likely cause problems
• essential bug or design fixes
• completed to a very high standard, will be reviewed and merged soon before the freezing

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• Fix various problems #37077
• Merge some standalone Vite entries into index.js #37085
• Fix various problems #37129

[lautriva]

Not related to the release but there is a little typo in the description: cowdin -> crowdin

(you can remove my comment once its fixed if you think it is too irrelevant 🙂)

[bircni]

#37114

[TheFox0x7]

That's typically done in a blog post. Changelog contains all changes since last version

[Lydanne]

When will the official version roughly go online?